Re: video card question

From: Henrik Carlqvist (Henrik.Carlqvist_at_deadspam.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:18:58 +0200

usenet@markc.users.panix.com (Mark Cudworth) wrote:
>>I am looking for a video card that I can use with Mandrake Linux that can
>>run OpenGL
...
>> without using a single piece of closed source code to make it happen.

> I just built a new system and put an ATI Radeon 9200

The Radeon 9200 is probably the best card for him. There are opensource
DRI drivers up to and including the 9200 card. For higher numbers
like 9600 and 9800 ATI has only given binary drivers.

For more info about those drivers, see
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATIRadeon
At the bottom of that page there is a list of supported cards.

All nvidia cards only have binary drivers with hardware OpenGL support.

There are also some cards from Matrox with opensource drivers, but those
have less performance.

regards Henrik 

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